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Fighting against anti-lemmy misinformation on reddit (old.reddit.com)

Please check my post, I think everything I said is very valid, but I want this community to see it too, and help steer the discussion, I think reddit is doing this intentionally.

HTTP Cats (http.cat)

LibRedirect - A web extension that redirects sites like Reddit, Twitter, and YouTube to privacy friendly alternative frontends. (libredirect.github.io)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/625644...

Plagiarism Engine: Google’s Content-Swiping AI Could Break the Internet (www.tomshardware.com)

[META] Tomorrow AskHistorians will go private (old.reddit.com)

Submitted an hour ago by SarahAGilbert Moderator...

iPhone subreddit starting protest early, going dark indefinitely (9to5mac.com)

Join the ArchiveTeam project to help index Reddit and other sites (tracker.archiveteam.org)

The ArchiveTeam has the ArchiveTeamWarrior project which is a small virtual machine or Docker instance that will help index and archive various sites based on need. For instance a big focus is on Reddit right now before the API access gets pulled or too many sites go dark permanently. This tool uses spare bandwidth from multiple...

Data Shows Most Switch Owners Are Women, Gamers React Poorly (kotaku.com)

The new data also reveals that 45% of Xbox owners and 41% of PS5 owners are female, too...

In response to the disastrous Spez AMA, /r/Videos have announced that they will permanently shut down on 11th June, one day ahead of the planned blackout (old.reddit.com)

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so, which Big Tech company do you think is going to shit the bed next and popularize its Fediverse/FOSS equivalent in the process? (kbin.social)

I'm personally crossing my fingers for Discord.

Silicon Valley escalates the battle over returning to the office (www.cnn.com)

Tesla autopilot killed 17 and crashed 736 times (www.washingtonpost.com)

More or less Tesla’s autopilot is not as safe as Tesla would have you believe.

Netflix sees jump in subs as it begins to curb password sharing in US, says report (techcrunch.com)

Apparently the Reddit AMA with Steve Huffman went about as well as it could go off the rails. (techcrunch.com)

Sci-fi writer Ted Chiang on the limits of AI, the uses of science fiction — and why there’s a ‘market opportunity for volleyballs’ (archive.ph)

Tafkars: Reddit-API proxy for Lemmy (help wanted) (imgur.com)

cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/768790...

OpenAI sued for defamation after ChatGPT fabricates legal accusations against radio host (www.theverge.com)

Reddit CEO (/u/spez) is going to hold a AMA about the API update (www.reddit.com)

Timeline of total users at the top 10 Lemmy instances (public.flourish.studio)

A timeline I created of the total users at the top 10 Lemmy instances as a bar chart race: public.flourish.studio/visualisation/14058992/ and as a line chart: public.flourish.studio/visualisation/14080522/.

Apollo for Reddit is shutting down (www.theverge.com)

whelp, there it is

RIF will also shut down on June 30th (old.reddit.com)

After Apollo, RIF is also going to shut down.

SimpleX messenger / secure messaging (social.lol)

Techlore gives an interesting short video on why he doesn’t recommend SimpleX right now....

Victory! New Jersey Court Rules Police Must Give Defendant the Facial Recognition Algorithms Used to Identify Him (www.eff.org)

EU considers mandatory ban on using Huawei and several other suppliers to build 5G over security concerns (12ft.io)

In 2020, the EU members resisted pressure back then from the US for an outright ban on Chinese telcos and agreed instead on the implementation of a ‘toolbox’ of security measures. It enabled member states to either restrict or exclude high-risk 5G vendors such as Huawei from core parts of their telecoms network. By now,...

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